Old Marble (Faux) Specimen Ruler with Hand-carved Numbers folk art cake and Film Studies at the

and Film Studies at the Rotch Library for Architecture and Urban Planning

Some detail photos make color appear lighter than it is

This 1858 copy of American Text Book for Letters penmanship instruction book

I believe it might originally have been a gate weight--perhaps for a church gate

and features lined pages for the front section with alphabetical tabs

Old Marble (Faux) Specimen Ruler with Hand-carved Numbers folk art cake and Film Studies at theA little searching turns up that Italian marble pietra dura "specimen" rulers were a thing, popular in the late 1800s as Grand Tour souvenirs. This, however, is not that it appears to be to be all one piece of marble, with carved lines to delineate inches and the variations in color done with some sort of dye. I tend to like aspirational things imitating other things, but what I especially like about this one, which makes it quite singular, is that